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November 17, 2007, Saturday

No discussion of meta-pop culture is complete without mention of George Burns learning of Gracie's latest cockamamie scheme by watching her on TV right along with the audience. Russell Frank University Park, Pa.

December 8, 2002, Sunday

All you need to know about the level of sophistication of ''Say Goodnight Gracie,'' which opened on Broadway last night at the Helen Hayes Theater, is that it begins with George Burns talking to God. ''I'm a big fan of Yours, too; I loved the Ten...

October 11, 2002, Friday

FRANK GORSHIN is up for anything. You need someone to dance wearing a loincloth in a monster movie? No problem. How about a nightclub act in Vegas? Done. Talk show guest? Stage cameo? Video game voiceover? Tell him where and when, and he'll be there....

To the Editor: Neal Gabler's memories of 1950's television ["Long Ago, When Burns Wasn't So Lovable," March 24], provoked some of my own. When I was a little girl I loved "Burns and Allen." Mr. Gabler recalls George Burns in his den as a...

April 21, 1996, Sunday

WHEN I WAS A BOY, I thought of the comedian George Burns, who died on March 9 at the age of 100, as a vaguely sinister figure. That's because the George Burns of my youth was not the huggably wise and wisecracking Jewish leprechaun he would become...

March 24, 1996, Sunday

When CAROL CHANNING accepts a lifetime achievement tribute in Los Angeles on Monday, it will have a particularly poignant tinge. On the eve of his death last Sunday, George Burns dictated congratulations to Ms. Channing, the "Hello, Dolly!"...